Mr Marr probably thought he had set a nice trap for Ms Thornberry, asking her about Jeremy Corbyn’s connection with the IRA – but in fact it’s an old chestnut that has long since been cracked.

For anybody who doesn’t know, the allegation is that Mr Corbyn is chums with terrorists because he actually dared to have open negotiations with them, back in the day. Of course, it has since been revealed that successive UK governments, who had spent 30 years claiming not to do deals with terrorists, had in fact been negotiating with them in secret. And Mr Corbyn’s way of handling terrorism led to the Northern Ireland peace process and the Good Friday Agreement.

In summary: Mr Corbyn was honest and his way led to peace; the UK goverenments were liars and they only got peace when they took a leaf out of his book.

Have some proof:

Dear BBC, Jeremy Corbyn held open talks with Sinn Féin for 15 years. The British Government held secret talks with the IRA for 30 yrs #Marrpic.twitter.com/56VjqkKyiB

Ms Thornberry wasn’t having any of the nonsense. She made the points I’ve just reiterated above – then dropped a bombshell on Mr Fallon who, it transpired, has been on very good terms with Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, in the past.

Mr Fallon tried to assert that there was a “huge moral difference” between meeting (and supporting) dodgy foreign leaders and what he called Jeremy Corbyn’s “open support for the IRA”.

The claim that Mr Corbyn supported the IRA is a lie, of course. He never supported terrorism and only ever worked for a peaceful solution to what was then known as ‘The Troubles’.

Ms Thornberry stamped on it, hard: “You really can’t just go around making this stuff up. There’s an election on and people need to make decisions on the basis of the truth.

“You’ve just said I want to negotiate the future of the Falklands. That is” “bollocks.”

“It’s not right for you to go slinging around dead cats the way that you do.”

Nearly every Tory just spews out lies and cherrypicked stats designed to confuse and give the false impression that things are all well. Regretfully they are disadvantaged by being in power for far to long now and the electorate already know
their track record, lies and corruption. Just wish we had a voting system that was far fairer than currently ie proportional representation.

Emily Thornberry? Rich woman who owns several houses pretending to be working class & defending Corbyn! She should know about “B####cks! she’s the queen of it!
Worst opposition in political history. Unelectable bunch of dimwits who all look & sound like they need therapy!

That same Emily Thornbury, on a recent Andrew Marr show, hung Ken £ivingstone out to dry yet, she claims that people need to make decisions based on truth, on the basis of fact. A little hypocritical, methinks. Good on her for defending Mr. Corbyn but Ken could have done with the same.

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